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|main character | |image = The Story so Far....png | ||
|featuring | |main character = [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]], [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]] | ||
|enemy | |featuring = | ||
|setting | |enemy = | ||
|writer | |setting = [[Shadow Spire]] | ||
|anthology | |writer = Jayce Black | ||
|release date | |anthology = The Book of the Peace (anthology) | ||
|publisher | |release date = 2 October 2018 | ||
|format | |publisher = Obverse Books | ||
|series | |format = Online vignette | ||
|prev | |series = ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' | ||
|next | |prev = Unsent letter (short story) | ||
}} | |next = A Scene (short story) | ||
}}{{you may|The Story So Far|n1=the series of Bernice Summerfield audio anthologies}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second promotional short story released in ''[[The Book of the Peace (anthology)|The Book of the Peace Dossier]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second promotional short story released in ''[[The Book of the Peace (anthology)|The Book of the Peace Dossier]]''. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
[[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]] and [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]], the keepers of [[ | [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]] and [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]], the keepers of the [[Shadow Spire]], call upon a [[loa]] to show them the [[Faction Paradox]] survivors of [[Lolita]]'s attack on the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. They're shown older members of the Family hibernating in surviving moments of the Empire, then [[Mathara]]'s [[Faction Paradox warship|warship]] fleet and its destruction in an invasion of [[Romana III's Gallifrey|a cloneworld]]. Mother and Father ask for survivors of other Homeworld deaths, and are shown first the [[Four surviving elementals|Elementals]] then members of the Faction on long-dead ruins of Homeworlds. The loa shows one final Faction survivor, the [[Justine McManus|new Grandfather]]. Mother and Father decide to open the Spire to all the living Faction Family they've been shown. They ask the loa to show the location of a [[weapon]], and it gives a flash of a [[green]] [[snake]] writhing through [[history]] before vanishing. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Justine McManus|The new Grandfather]] | * [[Justine McManus|The new Grandfather]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* [[ | * The [[Shadow Spire]] previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine]]''. | ||
* The [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]] and [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]] see the [[Eleven-Day Empire|Empire]] crumbling into the [[event horizon]] of "[[Lolita|a cruel, lipsticked sneer]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') | * The [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]] and [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]] see the [[Eleven-Day Empire|Empire]] crumbling into the [[event horizon]] of "[[Lolita|a cruel, lipsticked sneer]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') | ||
* Some of the Faction survived in their private moments of the Empire, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') some sharing [[The Loop|their bubbles]] with "[[Lover (Nothing Lasts Forever)|loves]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing Lasts Forever (short story)|Nothing Lasts Forever]]'') | * Some of the Faction survived in their private moments of the Empire, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') some sharing [[The Loop|their bubbles]] with "[[Lover (Nothing Lasts Forever)|loves]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing Lasts Forever (short story)|Nothing Lasts Forever]]'') | ||
* The Mother and Father see [[Mathara]]'s invasion of [[Romana III|the corrupted War Queen]]'s [[Nine Gallifreys|Homeworld]], with a false [[Grandfather Paradox|Grandfather]] under an [[Edifice (TARDIS)|edifice]] shadow, which ends in the Homeworld's detonation. [[Four surviving elementals|Some Homeworlder survivors]] fall from [[War in Heaven|Warring Heaven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') their [[heart]]s decaying ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') and their [[timeline]]s rotting into "patchworks of broken [[ | * The Mother and Father see [[Mathara]]'s invasion of [[Romana III (The Shadows of Avalon)|the corrupted War Queen]]'s [[Nine Gallifreys|Homeworld]], with a false [[Grandfather Paradox|Grandfather]] under an [[Edifice (TARDIS)|edifice]] shadow, which ends in the Homeworld's detonation. [[Four surviving elementals|Some Homeworlder survivors]] fall from [[War in Heaven|Warring Heaven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') their [[heart]]s decaying ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') and their [[timeline]]s rotting into "patchworks of broken [[history-proofing|memories]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'', et al) while Mathara's fleet crumbles into [[Clock-Person|shadowed virus souls ticking with poisoned gearwork]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'') | ||
* Mathara's [[Faction Paradox warship|fleet]] are [[skeleton]]s "pulled from the influence of the [[Infernal Sphere]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'') | * Mathara's [[Faction Paradox warship|fleet]] are [[skeleton]]s "pulled from the influence of the [[Infernal Sphere]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[T. memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T. memeticus: A Morphology]]'') | ||
* [[Uncle (rank)| | * [[Uncle (rank)|Uncles]] wait in the holds of Mathara's fleet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | ||
* The Homeworld invaded by Mathara is a "sheath echo". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | * The Homeworld invaded by Mathara is a "sheath echo". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | ||
* The Mother and Father see the [[Four surviving elementals|Elementals']] [[forgecity]] [[Throneworld (Hope)|Throneworld]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'') beneath "[[the Needle]]'s gleam" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'', et al) in sterile [[grey]]ness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') its [[The Emperor|Emperor]] in an "exile's [[century]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'', ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'', et al) | * The Mother and Father see the [[Four surviving elementals|Elementals']] [[forgecity]] [[Throneworld (Hope)|Throneworld]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'') beneath "[[the Needle]]'s gleam" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'', et al) in sterile [[grey]]ness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') its [[The Emperor|Emperor]] in an "exile's [[century]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'', ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'', et al) | ||
* The Emperor's [[the Magistrate|Magistrate]] toys with [[man with the Rosette|his rosette]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | * The Emperor's [[the Magistrate|Magistrate]] toys with [[man with the Rosette|his rosette]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | ||
* Other Faction survivors huddle around | * Other Faction survivors huddle around [[fire|campfires]] on long-dead [[Nine Gallifreys|Homeworlds]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'') including [[Ardethe]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'') [[New Alexandria]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') and [[Winkle's Wonderland|an ancient Wonderland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') | ||
* The [[Justine McManus|new Grandfather]] has red hair and green eyes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'') The Mother and Father watch her speaking to her "[[James Braddock|cavernous home and companion]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spinning Jenny (novel)|Spinning Jenny]]'') | * The [[Justine McManus|new Grandfather]] has red hair and green eyes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'') The Mother and Father watch her speaking to her "[[James Braddock|cavernous home and companion]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spinning Jenny (novel)|Spinning Jenny]]'') | ||
* [[Marielle Duquesne]] briefly saw something in the [[Time Vortex]] resembling a [[snake]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:04, 8 October 2024
- You may be looking for the series of Bernice Summerfield audio anthologies.
The Story so Far... was the second promotional short story released in The Book of the Peace Dossier.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Mother and Father, the keepers of the Shadow Spire, call upon a loa to show them the Faction Paradox survivors of Lolita's attack on the Eleven-Day Empire. They're shown older members of the Family hibernating in surviving moments of the Empire, then Mathara's warship fleet and its destruction in an invasion of a cloneworld. Mother and Father ask for survivors of other Homeworld deaths, and are shown first the Elementals then members of the Faction on long-dead ruins of Homeworlds. The loa shows one final Faction survivor, the new Grandfather. Mother and Father decide to open the Spire to all the living Faction Family they've been shown. They ask the loa to show the location of a weapon, and it gives a flash of a green snake writhing through history before vanishing.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Shadow Spire previously appeared in PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine.
- The Mother and Father see the Empire crumbling into the event horizon of "a cruel, lipsticked sneer". (AUDIO: The Shadow Play)
- Some of the Faction survived in their private moments of the Empire, (AUDIO: The Shadow Play) some sharing their bubbles with "loves". (PROSE: Nothing Lasts Forever)
- The Mother and Father see Mathara's invasion of the corrupted War Queen's Homeworld, with a false Grandfather under an edifice shadow, which ends in the Homeworld's detonation. Some Homeworlder survivors fall from Warring Heaven, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) their hearts decaying (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) and their timelines rotting into "patchworks of broken memories", (PROSE: The Burning, et al) while Mathara's fleet crumbles into shadowed virus souls ticking with poisoned gearwork. (PROSE: Anachrophobia)
- Mathara's fleet are skeletons "pulled from the influence of the Infernal Sphere". (PROSE: Interference - Book Two, T. memeticus: A Morphology)
- Uncles wait in the holds of Mathara's fleet. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
- The Homeworld invaded by Mathara is a "sheath echo". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
- The Mother and Father see the Elementals' forgecity Throneworld (PROSE: Hope) beneath "the Needle's gleam" (PROSE: Father Time, et al) in sterile greyness, (PROSE: Unnatural History) its Emperor in an "exile's century". (PROSE: The Burning, Escape Velocity, et al)
- The Emperor's Magistrate toys with his rosette. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, The Infinity Doctors)
- Other Faction survivors huddle around campfires on long-dead Homeworlds (PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory) including Ardethe, (PROSE: Deadfall) New Alexandria, (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus) and an ancient Wonderland. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
- The new Grandfather has red hair and green eyes. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire) The Mother and Father watch her speaking to her "cavernous home and companion". (PROSE: Spinning Jenny)
- Marielle Duquesne briefly saw something in the Time Vortex resembling a snake in PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Story so Far... page at Obverse Books
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